Jeremiah 9:19
New Living Translation
19 Hear the people of Jerusalem[a] crying in despair,
‘We are ruined! We are completely humiliated!
We must leave our land,
because our homes have been torn down.’”
Footnotes
- 9:19 Hebrew Zion.
Jeremiah 4:13
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13 Our enemy rushes down on us like storm clouds!
His chariots are like whirlwinds.
His horses are swifter than eagles.
How terrible it will be, for we are doomed!
Ezekiel 7:16-18
New Living Translation
16 The survivors who escape to the mountains
will moan like doves, weeping for their sins.
17 Their hands will hang limp,
their knees will be weak as water.
18 They will dress themselves in burlap;
horror and shame will cover them.
They will shave their heads
in sorrow and remorse.
Deuteronomy 28:29
New Living Translation
29 You will grope around in broad daylight like a blind person groping in the darkness, but you will not find your way. You will be oppressed and robbed continually, and no one will come to save you.
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Micah 2:10
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10 Up! Begone!
This is no longer your land and home,
for you have filled it with sin
and ruined it completely.
Micah 2:4
New Living Translation
4 In that day your enemies will make fun of you
by singing this song of despair about you:
“We are finished,
completely ruined!
God has confiscated our land,
taking it from us.
He has given our fields
to those who betrayed us.[a]”
Footnotes
- 2:4 Or to those who took us captive.
Micah 1:8-9
New Living Translation
8 Therefore, I will mourn and lament.
I will walk around barefoot and naked.
I will howl like a jackal
and moan like an owl.
9 For my people’s wound
is too deep to heal.
It has reached into Judah,
even to the gates of Jerusalem.
Lamentations 5:2
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2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,
our homes to foreigners.
Lamentations 4:15
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15 “Get away!” the people shouted at them.
“You’re defiled! Don’t touch us!”
So they fled to distant lands
and wandered among foreign nations,
but none would let them stay.
Jeremiah 4:30-31
New Living Translation
30 What are you doing,
you who have been plundered?
Why do you dress up in beautiful clothing
and put on gold jewelry?
Why do you brighten your eyes with mascara?
Your primping will do you no good!
The allies who were your lovers
despise you and seek to kill you.
31 I hear a cry, like that of a woman in labor,
the groans of a woman giving birth to her first child.
It is beautiful Jerusalem[a]
gasping for breath and crying out,
“Help! I’m being murdered!”
Footnotes
- 4:31 Hebrew the daughter of Zion.
Jeremiah 4:20
New Living Translation
20 Waves of destruction roll over the land,
until it lies in complete desolation.
Suddenly my tents are destroyed;
in a moment my shelters are crushed.
Jeremiah 2:14
New Living Translation
The Results of Israel’s Sin
14 “Why has Israel become a slave?
Why has he been carried away as plunder?
Leviticus 20:22
New Living Translation
22 “You must keep all my decrees and regulations by putting them into practice; otherwise the land to which I am bringing you as your new home will vomit you out.
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Leviticus 18:28
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28 So do not defile the land and give it a reason to vomit you out, as it will vomit out the people who live there now.
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Leviticus 18:25
New Living Translation
25 Because the entire land has become defiled, I am punishing the people who live there. I will cause the land to vomit them out.
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